Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 16:51:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Eli Scott <sp0rkmail@brainguts.no-ip.com> To: advocacy@freebsd.org Cc: bsd-advocacy@daemonnews.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows Message-ID: <20030624164709.Q76569@brainguts.no-ip.com> In-Reply-To: <200306231041.29418.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> References: <002201c33812$5b881e80$c601a8c0@starfly> <20030621202703.GB10127@over-yonder.net> <200306231041.29418.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
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I know I'm a bit late on this one, but maybe they should run FreeBSD against Gentoo on the big TechTV Linux vs FreeBSD shootout. I know whenever I try and advocate FreeBSD to my Linux friends running Gentoo, they always point to Portage as being a ports killer. ...And there's pretty much no way in hell someone can get a Gentoo system up in less than 30 minutes, even if they start at stage 3... >=) -Eli On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Johnson David wrote: > On Saturday 21 June 2003 04:25 pm, Peter wrote: > > People run Mandrake on servers? I would at least think they would use > > Redhat.. > > Linux advocacy is such that users of any particular distro feel that it > will meet everyone's needs better than any other distro. Thus you find > people arguing that Gentoo is appropriate for newbies and Mandrake > appropriate for servers. > > David > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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